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THE LAWS 



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MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE 



MIDDLEBURY: 
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MlDDLEBURY CoLLEGE, 15 

Agreeably to the following Laws, 

is admitted a member of the class in 

this College, 

President. 



LAWS 



OP 

IDDLEBURY COLLEGE. 



CHAPTER I. 

OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE COLLEGE. 

1. The government of the College shall be vested in 
the President, Professors, and Tutors, duly elected, who 
shall be styled the Faculty of the College. 

2. The President shall have power to direct in all mat- 
ters relating to the College ; to govern the undergradu- 
ate students, and the resident graduates ; and to punish 
all crimes and offences committed by them against the 
laws of the College ; unless in cases in which the concur- 
rence of the Professors and Tutors is made necessary by 
law. 

3. The Professors and Tutors, severally, shall ha'^e 
power to govern the undergraduate students, and to pun- 
ish them for any crime ; provided, that they may not, in 
any case, proceed contrary to the advice and direction of 
the President. 

4. The President, at his discretion, shall have author- 
ity to appoint a meeting of the Faculty. All matters, 
which by law are referred to the Faculty, shall be brought 
before such meeting, and determined by the major part 
of the members present, whereof the President shall al- 
ways be one and concurring in such determination. 



5. Every judgment of expulsion, dismission for fault, 
and rustication, shall be by the Faculty ; and the same 
shall be in writing and published in such a manner as the 
President shall direct. Copies of all such judgments, on 
application to the President, shall be given to all persons 
concerned : and if any student shall apprehend himself 
aggrieved by any such judgment, he shall have liberty, at 
any time within thirty days after the same shall have been 
given, of applying to the President, by a petition in writing, 
for a new trial : 'and on such petition, the President shall, 
whhin a convenient time, order a new trial to be had ; and 
provided, on such new trial, the former judgment shall 
be confirmed, such student still apprehending himself ag- 
grieved, or, in case he shall be a minor, his parent or guar- 
dian shall (except in case of rustication) ha^e the liberty 
of bringing a petition to the Corporation for relief ; which 
petition he shall lodge with the President, within thirty 
days after the said new trial : and the President shall lay 
the said petition before the Corporation, at their next 
meeting. 

6. Annually, at the time of the commencement, shall 
be appointed a Committee, of not less than three members 
of the Corporation, (of whom the President shall always 
be one,) denominated the Prudential Committee, This 
Committee shall be authorized and required to appoint a 
Tutor, whenever the office becomes vacant at any other 
time than at a meeting of the Corporation ; to order such 
repairs of the College buildings and appurtenances, as they 
shall judge necessary ; to audit the accounts of the Treas- 
urer ; to make an annual statement and report of the ex- 
penditures of the College, and state of the Treasury, and 
of the revenues and funds of the College ; to examine and 
adjust all accounts, which any person or persons have 
with the College and shall lay before them ; and where 
balances shall be found due to any such persons, to give 



orders on the Treasury for the payment of them; to in- 
stitute, in the name of the Corporation, suits for the recov- 
ery and preservation of the College property and interest, 
whenever it shall be necessary ; and to do and manage 
all other matters and things whereunto they are or shall 
be further authorized or required by law, or by any spe- 
cial resolve of the Corporation. 

7. The President shall be authorized to appoint the 
meetings of the Committee, and a major part of the Com- 
mittee shall have power to act. And when any other 
members of the Corporation shall be present at meetings 
of the Committee, they shall have the same pov/er of act- 
ing as the members of the Committee, in appointing a 
Tutor of the College, and in all other matters in which 
their advice and assistance shall be desired by the Com- 
mittee. 

8. In case of the death or resignation of the President, 
it shall be the duty of the Prudential Committee, as soon 
as convenient, to call a meeting of the Corporation. In 
the mean time, the government of the College shall be 
committed to the Professors and Tutors, who shall be au- 
thorized to exercise the powers intrusted to the Presi^ 
dent, Professors and TutorSp 



CHAPTER 11. 

OP ADMISSION INTO THE COLLEGE OF THE DISTINCTION OF 

THE CLASSES OF RESIDENT GRADUATES, AND 

OF THE MANNERS OF THE STUDENTS. 

1. Candidates for admission into the College shall be 
examined by the President, or by one or more of the Pro- 
fessors or Tutors ; and no one shall be admitted, unless he 
shall be found thoroughly acquainted with Geography 
and with the Grammar of the Latin and Greek langua« 
ges ; and be able to construe and parse any portion of th9 





following books, viz : Virgil, Cicero's Select Orations, Sal- 
lust, and Jacobs' Greek Reader, or such other classic au- 
thors as shall be considered by the Faculty equivalent 
thereto ; nor unless he shall be acquainted with some ap- 
proved treatise on the writing of the Latin language, and 
be able correctly to translate English into Latin ; nor un- 
less he possess a thorough knowledge of Arithmetic, in- 
cluding Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, with the doctrine 
of Roots and Powers. Every candidate for admission 
shall likewise produce satisfactory evidence of a blame- 
less life and conversation. 

2. Every student shall procure such sufficient surety 
or sureties as shall be to the satisfaction of the Treasurer, 
in the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars, to pay his 
several quarter bills and College dues, according to the 
laws and customs of the College. 

3. Every candidate, at his admission, shall receive a 
copy of the Laws of the College, (which shall be charged 
in the quarter bills,) and which being signed by the Pres- 
ident and by one or more of the Professors or Tutors, 
shall be the evidence of his admission. At his admission 
he shall be required to pay one quarter's tuition in ad- 
vance ; and as they become due, he shall be obliged to 
pay all College bills, when he shall be absent as well as 
present, so long as he shall continue a member of the 
College. 

4. Masters and Bachelors of Arts, who shall signify to 
the President their intention of residing at the College for 
purposes of study, and give a sufficient bond for the pay- 
ment of their quarter bills, shall be considered as resident 
graduates and students of the College. The charges to 
resident graduates shall be, for the use of the Library and 
room rent, the same as to undergraduates. 

5. Every student, whether a graduate or undergradu- 
site, shall be subject to the laws and government of the 



College ; and show, in speech and behavior, all proper to- 
kens of respect and obedience to the President, Fellows, 
Professors and Tutors of the College. And if any student 
shall transgress this law, by treating them, or any of them 
with reviling or reproachful language, or by behaving con- 
tumaciously towards them, or by being guilty of any kind 
of contempt of their persons or authority, he may be pun- 
ished as the nature and aggravation of his crime may re- 
quire. 

6. The undergraduate students shall be divided into 
four distinct classes. The first year they shall be called 
Freshmen ; the second. Sophomores ; the third, Juniors ; 
and the fourth. Seniors. 

7. If any student shall contract matrimony, he shall 
cease to be a member of the College. 



CHAPTER III. 



OF RELIGIOUS WORSHIP AND ORDER, AND OF MONITORS. 

1. It shall be the duty of the President, Professors 
and Tutors, diligently to inspect and watch over the man- 
ners and behavior of the students, and in all proper meth- 
ods, both by example and precept, to recommend to them 
a virtuous and blameless life, and a diligent attention to 
the public and private duties of religion. 

2. The President, or in his absence, one of the Profes- 
sors or Tutors, shall pray every morning and evening in 
the chapel, and read a chapter or some suitable portion of 
Scripture, unless a sermon or some other theological dis- 
course shall be delivered. And the punctual attendance 
of every student is required. 

3. Every student shall be obliged to be present at ev- 
ery exercise of public worship on every Lord's day, and 
on days of public fasting and thanksgiving. No reason 
of a student's absence from public worship shall be re- 



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ceived as sufficient, unless (when practicable) previously 
made known to the President, or a Professor, or a Tutor. 

4. Every member of College, above twenty-one years 
of age, who shall propose to attend steadily on any other 
regular Christian society than that on which the members 
of the College usually attend, shall signify in writing his 
desire to the President ; and every student under the age 
of twenty-one years, who shall propose to attend the said 
service, shall bring to the President a written request 
from his parent or guardian, that he may attend said ser- 
vice ; and all students but those excepted as above, who 
shall not produce such waitings, shall be required to at- 
tend- at the usual place of worship. 

5. It is enjoined upon all the students to observe the 
Lord's day as holy and sacred to the duties of religion. 
And if any student shall profane the said day by unneces- 
sary business, by diversion, or by walking abroad ; or shall 
thereon admit any other student or a stranger into his 
chamber, or on the preceding or following evening shall 
make indecent noise or disturbance ; or shall behave in- 
decently or profanely at the time of public worship, or at 
prayers, he may be punished by admonition or otherwise, 
as the nature and demerit of the crime shall require. 

6. Monitors shall be appointed by the Faculty, who 
shall be furnished with bills in which they shall note down 
those who are absent from, come late to, or egress from 
prayers and other public exercises, on which the students 
by law are obliged to attend ; which bills they shall deliver 
to the President, a Professor, or Tutor, whenever required. 



CHAPTER IV. 



OF THE COURSE OF ACADEMIC LITERATURE AND INSTRUC- 
TION, STUDY HOURS, AND EXAMINATIONS. 

1. The President, Professors, and Tutors shall instruct 



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the students in the arts and sciences, and the course of 
academic literature. 

2. The Senior class shall be under the special instruc- 
tion of the President. Each Tutor shall take the care of, 
and instruct the particular class committed to his charge 
by the President. 

3. The President, with the advice of the Professors 
and Tutors, shall appoint all classical exercises and exam- 
inations, and the authors which shall be read and recited 
by the respective classes. 

4. Students, during their College course, shall be in- 
structed in the following branches of science and litera- 
ture, under the direction, and accordbig to the arrange- 
ment of the Faculty, viz : — in the ancient Languages, Al- 
gebra, English Grammar, and the elements of Chronolo- 
gy, History, and Antiquities, together with Composition in 
the Latin and Greek Languages : in Geometry, the Men- 
suration of Superficies and Solids, Conic Sections, Trigo- 
nometry, Navigation and Surveying: in Natural Philoso- 
phy, Astronomy, Chemistry, Natural History, Natural 
Theology, and the Evidences of Christianity : in Rhetoric, 
Logic, Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, Political Econ- 
omy, the Law of Nature and Nations, and Natural and 
Revealed Religion, as proved and illustrated by their Anal- 
ogy to the course of Nature. With these studies shall 
be intermixed frequent exercises in Elocution, EngHsh 
Composition, and Forensic Discussion. Every Wednes- 
day afternoon, especially, shall be principally employed 
in exercises in Elocution, in the chapel ; when four, at least, 
from each of the three lower classes shall be required to 
speak before their classmates and other members of Col- 
lege, and subject to the critical observations of the Pres- 
ident, Professors and Tutors. In like manner each mem- 
ber of the Senior class shall be required to speak at least 
once every term, before all the members of College, after 

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evening prayers. The undergraduates shall frequently 
read specimens of their composition in Enghsh, before 
their respective instructors and classes. And the Seniors 
and Juniors shall once or twice a week dispute forensi- 
cally ; and the members of these classes shall attend the 
appointed lectures, in the several branches of science and 
literature, as the Faculty may direct. 

5. The two lower classes shall attend recitation three 
times a day, Wednesday and Saturday afternoons except- 
ed. The two senior classes shall attend two recitations 
a day, with the like exceptions, and either a lecture, or 
a third recitation when directed by the Faculty. All 
the classes shall also attend the other prescribed College 
exercises. 

6. That the students may make the best improvement 
of their time, they shall keep in their respective rooms, 
and diligently attend to their studies during study hours. 
These, from the beginning of the first term to the first of 
April, shall be from nine to twelve in the forenoon, and 
from two to evening prayers in the afternoon ; and from 
the first of April to Commencement, from eight to twelve 
in the forenoon, and from two to evening prayers in the 
afternoon. 

7. No student shall be absent from his room without 
leave or necessity in study hours ; and if, by being often 
absent, by frequenting the rooms of his fellow-students, 
and interrupting their studies, by a course of idleness, 
by noisy and disorderly behavior, in his own room, in 
any other room, or in the entries of College, he shall 
render himself a nuisance and a dishonor to the Institu- 
tion ; he may be privately or publicly admonished, sus- 
pended, or rusticated, degraded or dismissed, according 
to the degree and circumstances of his offence. 

8. No student shall sing, play on any instrument of 
music, or in any other way make any noise or disturbance 



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in his own room, or in any part of College, or near it, du- 
ring study hours. The student guilty of any such breach 
of order shall be subject to punishment, according to the 
degree and repetitions of the offence. 

9. The Tutors shall frequently visit the rooms of the 
students, to see that their rooms are kept in good order, 
and that they are employed in study. 

10. There shall be three public examinations in each 
year — one at the close of the fall term, one at the close 
of the spring term, and the third at the end of the year. 
At the two former examinations, each individual of the 
four classes shall be thoroughly examined in every 
branch of study which has been pursued during the term 
that is then closing : at the examination at the close of 
the summer term, each individual of the three lower class- 
es shall be thoroughly examined in every branch of the 
whole preceding course of study, and a Committee of gen- 
tlemen appointed for the purpose shall be invited to attend. 
During these examinations, the degree of attainment made 
by each student in the several departments of study, shall 
be carefully noted by the members of the Faculty and 
the examining Committee. At the close of each exami- 
nation, these minutes shall be compared, and the com- 
parison, embracing the united judgment of the Faculty 
and Committee, shall be recorded in a book prepared for 
the purpose ; and any parent or guardian, on inquiry of 
the President, shall be informed, what was the result of 
any examination, so far as his own son or ward is con- 
cerned. Should any student, at these examinations, be 
found grossly deficient in his attainments, he shall be ad- 
monished, dismissed, or degraded to the next lower class, 
according to the nature and extent of his deficiency. 

11. Two weeks previous to the Commencement, the 
Seniors shall be examined in their whole College course 
of study, as candidates for the degree of Bachelor of ArtSr 



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under the direction of the President, by the Professors, 
Tutors, and such gentlemen of liberal education as may 
be invited to attend. When the examination is finished, 
the Professors, Tutors, and such other hterary gentlemen 
as have attended a greater part of the examination, shall 
have a right to vote by ballot for the approbation or dis- 
approbation of each candidate. Those who are approv- 
ed by a majority of the voters, shall be advanced to the 
standing of candidates entitled to the degree of Bachelor 
of Arts at the next Commencement. Those who are not 
approved by a majority of the voters, may, if they please, 
have the privilege of being again examined under the di- 
rection of the President, and if approved, shall be entitled 
to a degree with their class. 

12. The Senior class shall be excused from collegiate 
exercises after their final examination ; and after comple- 
ting their assigned preparations for Commencement, shall 
have leave of absence from town till the Saturday prece- 
ding Commencement. 

13. There shall be a public exhibition of the Junior 
class at the close of each spring term. 



CHAPTER V. 

OP VACATIONS AND ABSENCE FROM COLLEGE. 

1. There shall be four vacations in each year : the first 
from Commencement /owr weeks; the 5eco/i^ from the 
last Wednesday in November, one week ; the third, from 
the second Wednesday in February, two weeks ; and the 

fourth, from the third Wednesday in May, two weeks. 

2. From the commencement of the November vaca- 
tion to the close of the February vacation, all those stu- 
dents who are permitted by the Faculty to teach school, 
shall be excused from College exercises. But all others 
shall be required to be present during the winter term, 



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which shall commence on the'first Wednesday in Decem- 
ber, and close on the second Wednesday in February. 

3. During the winter term, the members of the four 
classes who are present, shall be embodied in two divis- 
ions ; and pursue studies annually prescribed by the Fac- 
ulty, and not embraced in the general course. 

4. Durins? the winter term, 9 o'clock shall be the time 
for morning prayers, and 4 o'clock for evening prayers ; 
and there shall be two recitations or lectures on each day, 
(Saturday afternoon and the Sabbath excepted,) — one 
immediately succeeding the morning prayers, and the oth- 
er preceding the evening prayers. 

5. Immediately upon the expiration of each vacation, 
except that preceding the winter term, the President, Pro- 
fessors and Tutors shall enter on the duties of their re- 
spective offices ; and all the undergraduate students 
shall assemble at the College. 

6. If any undergraduate student shall not return to 
the College at the end of a vacation, or of the time of ab- 
sence allowed him by the President, a Professor or a Tu- 
tor, and shall send no sufficient excuse, he shall be liable 
to be fined twenty-five cents for every day's absence. 

7. Any undergraduate who has been absent more 
than two months, either with or without leave, shall be 
examined in the studies in which his class have been em- 
ployed during his absence, and if he is found deficient, he 
shall be hable to lose his standing, unless, in the opinion 
of the Faculty, he can and will, in a short time, by diligent 
application to his studies, make up his deficiency. 

8. No student shall reside in College during a vacation, 
unless by particular permission of the President, and un- 
der such regulations and restrictions as he shall direct. 



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CHAPTER VI. 

or THE LOCATION OF STUDENTS, AND OF DAMAGES. 

1. Every student shall statedly reside in the room as- 
signed to him by the locating officer. No student shall 
leave his room or be absent from it, after nine o'clock in 
the evening, without special permission ; nor suffer any 
noise in it, by which the repose of the College v,^ould be 
disturbed. And, if any student shall refuse or neglect to 
occupy the room assigned him ; or, without permission, 
shall remove from his own to another room, he shall be 
fined or punished in some other way, as the circumstan- 
ces of the case may require. 

2. The rooms in the lower story of the West College, 
at least, shall be reserved for the use of the class about 
to enter, who shall be located in them, as they are admit- 
ted from time to time. Provided all the rooms are not 
occupied at the commencement of the fall term, a suffi- 
cient number of the students previously permitted to room 
out of College, may be called in. 

3. During the Senior vacation, and some time before 
Commencement, the rooms shall be assigned to the three 
other classes, for the succeeding year. 

4. The person appointed to superintend the business, 
(who shall always be a permanent officer of the College) 
shall have authority to locate the students in the several 
rooms ; andevery student, located in any room, shall pay 
the rent of the same, until he shall, by application to the 
locating officer, have been discharged from his location. 

5. If the rooms in the College buildings shall not be 
sufficient to accommodate all the students, the locating 
officer, with the concurrence of the President, may give 
liberty to so many as necessity shall require, to reside among 
the inhabitants of Middlebury of approved character ; in 
which case a preference shall be allowed such students 
as belong to the town, when it shall be requested by them* 



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their parents or guardians, that they may reside in the 
famihes to which they belong. And if they occupy a room, 
by permission, in their parent's dwelling-house, no room- 
rent shall be charged in their College bills. 

6. If any room shall become vacant, after the com- 
mencement of the year, the Faculty may take such meth- 
od, as they may deem proper, provided it be consistent 
with the foregoing regulations, to call in any student oc- 
cupying a room in the village. 

7. All students living out of the Colleges and in the 
tov/n of Middlebury, shall be subject to the same laws and 
rules as those who reside in the Colleges. No student 
shall board at a tavern : nor resort to any place of public 
entertainment in Middlebury, for refreshment, without 
special permission from the President. 

8. Graduates and undergraduates shall be accounta- 
ble for all glass broken, and other damages done in the 
room assigned them, unless they can prove that the glass 
w^as broken or damages done by some other person, or 
in such a manner as to imply no carelessness in them. 
The individual who breaks any glass or does any damage 
in the room which he occupies, shall, when known, be 
charged with it ; but if not known, it shall be charged 
equally to those to whom the room is assigned. If a grad- 
uate, or undergraduate, break any glass in, or do any 
damage to a room occupied by another person, or to any 
part of the College edifices, or their appurtenances, he, if 
known, shall be charged with it in his quarter-bills ; and 
when any damage is done, by persons unknown, to any 
part of the College edifices or appurtenances, it shall be 
charged equally in the quarter-bills to all the undergrad- 
uates. 

9. All damages, when practicable, shall, by the Inspec- 
tor of the College buildings, be immediately repaired ; and 
provided the repair is full and complete, the actual ex- 



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pense shall be a rule in the estimate of the damage ; oth- 
erwise; it shall be assessed according to discretion. 

10. No repairs, additions or alterations shall be made 
in any room by any student or students, but at his or their 
own expense, and under the direction of the Inspector. 

11. At the end of each quarter it shall be the duty of 
the Inspector to visit the rooms occupied by the students, 
to ascertain the damages which have been done in them 
during the quarter then ending, that the same may be as- 
sessed and charged respectively in the quarter-bills. 

12. To prevent, as far as possible, the damages before 
enumerated, viz., breaking of glass, &:c., the students shall 
not be permitted to play at ball, or use any other sport or 
diversion in or near the College buildings, by which the 
same may be exposed to injury, on penalty of being fined 
for the first offence, and suspended if the offence be of- 
ten repeated. 



CHAPTER VII. 

OF CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS. 

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1. If any student shall be guilty of blasphemy, or rob- 
bery, fornication, theft, forgery, duelling, or any other 
crime for which an infamous punishment may be inflicted 
by the laws of the State, he shall be expelled. 

2. If any student shall be guilty of a profane oath, or 
profaning the name, word or ordinances of God, he shall 
be admonished, or punished ,or otherwise, as the nature 
and circumstances of the offence may require. 

3. If any student shall be guilty of fighting, striking, 
quarrelling, challenging, turbulent words or indecent and 
immodest behavior, fraud, lying, defamation, or any simi- 
lar crimes or misdemeanors, he shall be punished by ad- 
monition, or other College punishment suited to the na- 
ture and demerit of the crime. 



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4. If any student shall be guilty of opening by pick-lock, 
false key, or other instrument, or breaking open the room, 
chest,desk, or any other place under lock and key, or other- 
wise secured, belonging to any other person, he shall make 
good all damages, and be punished by admonition or ex- 
pulsion, as the nature of the offence may deserve. 

5. If any student shall be guilty of an injury to a fel- 
low-student, or to any other person within the town of 
Middlebury, upon complaint and proof thereof made to 
the President, he shall, with the advice of the Professors 
and Tutors, give judgment thereon, and order satisfaction 
to be made according to the nature of the offence or in- 
jury ; 'which, if any student shall refuse to do, he shall be 
publicly admonished ; and if, after admonition, he persist 
in such refusal, he shall be dismissed. If any student shall 
be guilty of any abusive speech or behavior towards his 
fellow-students, or towards any other person, he may be 
punished as the offence may require. 

6. The President, a Professor or a Tutor shall have au- 
thority to break open and enter any College room, or 
study, or any room in the village occupied by a student, 
at all times, at discretion. And if any student shall refuse 
to admit any member of the Faculty into his room or stu- 
dy, or to assist in suppressing any disorder, or to give ev- 
idence respecting any matter under examination, when, in 
any of those cases required, or shall falsely declare himself 
ignorant of the matter, he may be punished by admoni- 
tion, rustication, or expulsion, as the circumstances of the 
crime may require. 

7. If any student, without leave obtained of the Pres- 
ident, a Professor or a Tutor, shall go out of the town of 
Middlebury, or beyond the place allowed him, or shall 
not return by the appointed time, he may be punished by 
fine, admonition, or otherwise, according to the degree 

and circumstances of the offence. 

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8. No student, without leave of the JPresident, shall, 
in term-time, put himself under the instruction of any per- 
son, not an officer of the College, on penalty of admoni- 
tion, suspension or rustication. Nor shall any student, 
without special permission, undertake to give stated in- 
struction, during term-time. 

9. No student shall, at any time^ carry into either Col- 
lege building any wine, brandy, or other spirituous liquor, 
unless he have permission from a College officer. Nor 
shall any student resort to any tavern, store, shop, or cel- 
lar to drink any liquors of this description. 

1 0. No student, without permission from the President, 
shall publicly exhibit any original or selected composition 
within five miles of the College. 

1 1. No student is allowed to keep any kind of fire-arms 
or gunpowder in his room or in any part of the College 
buildings, nor to fire a gun or pistol within or near said 
buildings. 

12. No student shall attend any dancing-school inMid- 
dlebury, in term-time, without permission, 

13. No student shall play at cards, nor keep in his 
room any implements used in games of chance. And 
should any persist in the practice, after admonition, they 
shall be suspended or rusticated, according to the aggra- 
vation of the offence. 

14. If any student shall be guilty of drunkenness, he 
shall be punished according to the circumstances of the 
offence. 

15. If any student shall familiarly associate himself 
with vile, idle, dissolute persons, or shall admit suth per- 
sons into his room, and shall persist therein after warning 
given by any of the Faculty of the College to avoid them, 
he may be punished as his offence shall require. 

16. If any combination or agreement to do any unlaw- 
ful act, or to forbear compliance with any injunction from 



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lawful authority in the College, shall be entered into by 
undergraduates ; or if any enormity, disorder, or act of 
disobedience shall be perpetrated by any undergraduates 
in consequence of such combination or agreement, in both 
or either of these cases, such and so many of the offend- 
ers shall, upon due conviction, be punished with admoni- 
tion, rustication, dismission or expulsion, according to the 
circumstances of their offences, as shall be judged necessa- 
ry for the preservation of good order in the College. 

17. In all cases of crimes and misdemeanors, the Fac- 
ulty shall be authorized to accept an ingenuous pubhc 
confession in lieu of the penalties, except where the law 
requires expulsion. 

18. If a student transgress any law, where a specific 
penalty is not annexed, he may be punished at the discre- 
tion of the Faculty, by fine, admonition, suspension, rusti- 
cation or expulsion, according to the nature and aggrava- 
tion of his offence. And whereas the Laws of the Col- 
lege are few and general, and cases may occur which are 
not expressly provided for by law ; in all such cases the 
Faculty shall proceed according to their best discretion, 
and may punish a student by inflicting a fine, or any other 
College censure, according to the nature and circumstan- 
ces of the crime. 

19. If a student shall be habitually inattentive to the 
exercises of the chapel, or to recitations ; or shall be oth- 
erwise negligent or disorderly in his conduct ; or by his 
example and influence be injurious to his fellow-students, 
the President, with the advice of the Faculty, shall be au- 
thorized to send him privately from the Institution. 

20. The President shall keep a fair record of the ju- 
dicial proceedings of the executive government of the 
College, stating the crimes committed and the punish- 
ments inflicted ; and the same shall be laid before the 
Corporation, annually, at Commencement. 



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CHAPTER VIII. 

OF THE LIBRARY, APPARATUS, AND CABINET. 

L The Librarian shall attend upon the business of the 
office once every week, at such times as shall be appoint- 
ed by the President. And no person shall go into the Li- 
brary without the Librarian, except such as are in the gov- 
ernmem of the College, or by their direction. The Libra- 
rian, at every Commencement, shall render an account of 
the state of the Library to the Corporation. 

2. The Libiarian shall keep an account of every book 
borrowed out of the Library, the name of the person 
borrowing or returning, the time of doing it, and the num- 
ber of the book. 

S. Every student shall receive his books from the Libra- 
rian ; nor shall he take down or put up any book without 
express permission from the Ijibrarian. 

4. No student shall have more than two books from 
the Library at any one time, nor keep any book longer 
than two weeks, 

5. Any student who shall neglect to return any book 
in his possession within the time directed, shall incur a 
penalty of twelve cents, and one cent per day for every 
day's detention till returned. 

6. No person shall lend any book borrowed from the 
Library, upon penalty of twenty-five cents ; nor carry a 
book out of town, upon the same penalty. And all books 
borrowed from the Library shall be returned on ihe Satur- 
day next preceding each vacation, upon the same penalty, 

7. No person shall wi'ite in a book, except the Libra^ 
rian, or some other member of the Faculty, to record its 
place in the Library, or for some valuable purpose. 

8. Whoever borrows a book from the Libraiy shall 
make good all damages done to it while in his possession. 
If any book borrowed out of the Library be lost or injur* 



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cd, the borrower shall be obliged to replace it, or pay for 
the damage, at the discretion of the President or the Li- 
brarian ; and if the book lost or abused belong to a set of 
books, he shall take the remaining volumes and pay for 
the whole, or replace them by a new set. 

9. Smaller damages done to books shall be estimated 
after the following manner: for tearing off a cover, the 
price of new binding the volume, and for less damages to 
the cover in the same proportion : for every spot of ink 
or grease, two cents ; and for every leaf througli which 
it penetrates, after the first, one cent : for tearing out a 
leaf, or soiling a whole page, from twenty-five cents to the 
value of the volume or set : for tearing out part of a leaf, 
or soiling part of a page, in the same proportion : for 
turning down a leaf, one cent. 

10. Whereas some books of great value are proper 
to be consulted only occasionally, such books shall never 
be taken from the Library without special permission from 
the President. 

11. On the week preceding Commencement, annual- 
ly, each book in the Library shall be taken down and the 
shelves freed from dust ; and it shall be the duty of the 
Prudential Committee, or a committee appointed for the 
special purpose, to visit and inspect the Library. There 
shall be the same visitation and inspection of the Library 
at any other time of the year upon the resignation of the 
Librarian. 

12. The philosophical apparatus shall be under the 
care of the Professor of Mathematics and Natural Phi- 
losophy, who shall, annually, at Commencement, report 
the state of the same to the Corporation. 

13. The chemical apparatus and cabinet shall be un- 
der the care of the Professor of Chemistry and Natural 
History, who shall annually report the state of the samt 
to the Corporation, 



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CHAPTER IX. 

OP COLLEGE DUES AND QUARTER BILLS. 

1. The College year shall begin at the Commence- 
ment evening. The first quarter shall end on the third 
Wednesday in November : the second on the third 
Wednesday in February : the third on the third Wednes- 
day in May : and the fourth at the Commencement, on 
the third Wednesday in August. 

2. Towards the end of each quarter, the President shall 
cause to be written out a bill, containing the following 
sums, which shall be paid quarterly into the College 
Treasury : for tuition, each student shall be charged five 
dollars ; for room-rent, where two occupy a room, one 
dollar and fifty cents, and if witi) a dormitory, two dollars; 
for the use of the Library, fifty cents ; for sweeping and 
ringing the bell, twenty-five cents ; for contingent expense 
es and ordinary repairs, fifty cents ; together with the 
sums assessed for broken glass, for special damages, for 
fines, and other customary College duties. In the Febru- 
ary quarter-bill, each student not excused to teach school, 
shall be charged two dollars, to defray the extra expenses 
of the winter term. 

3. Any student, who shall be admitted to an advanced 
standing, (except from another College,) shall, if he enter 
after the expiration of the second quarter of the Fresh- 
man year, pay five dollars ; and if after the expiration of 
the second quarter of the Sophomore year, ten dollars, 
as a fee of admission. 

4. The President having approved and signed the 
quarter-bill, shall deliver it to the Treasurer of the College 
to collect. The Treasurer, when he has collected the 
same, shall pay quarterly to the officers of the College, 
the sums due to them — charging said sums to the Corpo- 
ration, with all other sums paid by their order. 

5. The several sums charged in the quarter-bills sbal! 



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be considered as due and payable as soon as the bills are 
made up according to law : and the Treasurer shall be 
authorized to demand the same, immediately on the bills 
being delivered to him for collection, with interest on them 
till they are paid. And in all cases, where the quarter 
bills of students are not paid within three months after 
they shall have become due, it shall be the duty of the 
Treasurer to report the fact to the Faculty, and the duty 
of the Faculty to call the delinquents before them ; and 
if no satisfactory reason for the delinquency be assigned, 
either to write to their parents or guardians, or suspend 
them from the privileges of the institution, till payment 
shall have been made. 

6. In case of the absence, sickness, or other incapaci- 
ty of the President, and also in case the President's office 
shall be vacant, the Senior Professor shall be authorized 
and required to do every thing relating to the quarter 
bills, which, by law, the President is authorized and re- 
quired to do. 

CHAPTER X. 

OF COMMENCEMENT AND ACADEMICAL DEGREES. 

1. The Commencement shall be on the third Wednes- 
day of August, annually ; and the candidates for the first 
degree shall attend at the College on the Saturday pre- 
ceding. 

2. No student shall be admitted to the first degree, 
who shall not have attended and performed the usual 
course of academical exercises, as appointed by law, for 
the space of four years, except such as have been regu- 
larly admitted to an advanced standing ; nor unless, on 
the final examination of the class, or a special examination 
appointed by the President, he shall have been approved 
as a candidate for the same, and also have, on the day 



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before Commencement, produced a cfci tmcaie irom me 

Treasurer that he has paid his College dues. 

3. No candidate for the second degree may expect the 
same, unless he shall have preserved a good moral char- 
acter, and previously to Commencement, signified to the 
President his desire of the same. All candidates for ei- 
ther degree shal be personally present, unless in any in- 
stance, the President and Fellows shall judge it proper to 
confer the honor of a degree upon an absent candidate. 

3. All academical honors shall be given by the Presi- 
dent, with the consent of the Fellows ; and the candidates 
for a first or second degree shall each, previously to re- 
ceiving the same, pay the President a sum not less than 
four dollars. 

5. In the bill of the quarter ending at Commencement, 
the candidates for the first degree shall be charged with 
the sum of three dollars and fifty cents for the expense of 
the public Commencement dinner, and printing the Tri- 
ennnial Catalogue. 

6. The candidates for either degree shall attend the 
public procession on the Commencement day from and 
to the College, and shall perform the public exercises, 
which shall have been previously appointed them by the 
Faculty ; and no public exhibition shall be made without 
such appointment, nor without having been approved by 
the Faculty. Nor shall any instrumental music be pro- 
cured by the students for Commencement, or for any oth- 
er exhibition, except with the approbation of the Faculty. 

7. Persons who have received a degree at any other 
College, may, upon proper application, be admitted ad 
eundem upon payment of the customary fee to the Pres- 
ident. 

8. Every person who has received any degree, may 
have a diploma, if he request it and bring to the Presi- 
ident a fair copy of the established form, written on vel- 
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